Page A6 — Terrace Standard, Wednesda , June 24, 1992

_ Family Life program:

‘missing the mar

TERRACE — The school board
‘will review its Family Life Edu-
cation program after one trustee
suggested the program wasn't
working.

Brendishing a copy of the
Skeena Health Unit's annual

report, Stewart trustee Kris Chap-:

man read statistics that the num- .

ber of births to teen mothers in,
the Terrace. district’ remains

roughly double the - provincial
average. ,
~ “[ think there’s 3 some cause for
alarm,” she said, calling fora
review of the Family Life Educa
tion program. - -4Somehow --we
don’t seem to be hitting: the mark
here.” _ :

Terrace. trustee Laurie Mitchell
suggested the high numbers here
could in. part be. altributed .to a
tendency to wed early,

“Tn the cities, they don’ t marry
until they’re 23 or 25,” Mitchell

said. ‘‘Up here our girls tend 10

marry quite a. bit earlier.”
‘Trustees agreed to a review and

tabled -the item to- the board’s s-

September meeting, eos
Women aged.15-19. account for
‘about 12 per cent of the babies ©

born in the region in 1990, ac-

‘Adventists
plan to bui Id |

_ TERRACE == The. “Seventh
Day Adventist church - here’ is

going ahead. with plans to build a‘

_ ew facility on land it owns at
Frank’s Field,

It'll’ spend..a “couple of years |

raising money and then build. ei-

ther a two or four room school to |

slart, pastor. Ulrich. ‘Unruh said:
last week, .

We. do. have a. “church -right

now, with: & school in’ the. ‘base-

ment. We can use the new school

a5. a church ‘also. and. sell the :

other,” he said... bake,
» The possibility. ‘of. ‘building. a
four-room - school. comes: from a

‘demand for. ‘kindergarten, the

pastor added: :
. The Seventh, Day... Adventist
; éhool is now located | in‘the base-

nent of the: existing church on.

Griffiths: : vont .

“It has 18 studenits i in Grades 1 -
8 with two teachers and will add.
Grade 9 next-yeary 2...

The church has 113 5 baptized
members. .

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cording to the health unit’s report.

The Terrace area and the
Skeena region as a whole have
double the rate of teen births as
the rest of the province.

Telegraph Creek had the high-
est rate — more than four. times
the provincial average. And the
Nass. Valley, at about three times
. the B.C. average, was second,

The Queen Charlotte Islands’
teen birth: rate — less than half
the B.C, average — was by far
the lowest in the Skeena region.

- According to the Department of

Vital Statistics, 58 of 487 births.

in Terrace in 1991 — 12 per cent

/— were to teen mothers. ‘The

. provincial rate
cent, .

“We've still got a fairly good-
sized problem,” Chapman said,
despite the range of programs the
district is involved with.

She - noted | ins particular the
strong response to the district’s
‘Young Moms’ Program here,
which is designed to help teen
mothers come back to school,

“‘Something’s :

wrong,” she

said, ‘'and it’s touchy but maybe

we should be asking the kids.”’

. Chapman said she doésu’t in-

tend for. ‘the review to become an-

other forum for’ ‘debating whether |
“or not condoms should be in-

stalled in: school washrooms.

is about six per

Kris Chapman
“That wasn’t the intent,’ she
said, “‘ still believe it’s: quite a
leap for us to say yes, we will
take responsibitity for providing

birth control.”

The condom question fi first arose
late in 1989 after’ the Skeena
Union Board of Health recom-

. mended the machines be installed -

in high schools. |
Trustees voted down the idea’

by, a 5-4)3 margin two years. ago.
_ Chapman was among the tnistees
who favoured: installation then,

provided the health ministry took .

responsibility for the machines.

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